Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-17


physical and M ntal and moral assassina-
ton. In proportion as any style of alec
holism is pleasant to your taste and
stimulating to your nerves and for time
delightful to your physical and mental con-
stitution is the peril awful. Remember
Jonathan and the forbidden honey in the
woods of Beth-Aven.
Furthermore, the gamester's indulgence
must be put in the list Of temptations
delicious but destructive I have crossed
the ocean eight times, and always one of
the best rooms has, from morning till
: late at night, been given up to
GAMBLING PRACTICES.
l heard of many men who went on
| board with enough money for Eu-
ropean excursion who landed with
out enough money to get their
baggage up to the hotel or railroad sta
ton. To many there is complete fascin-
alton in games OF hazard or the risking
of money on possibilities. It seems as
natural for them to bet as TO eat. IN
deed the hunger for food is often over
powered with the hunger for wsgers, as
| in the case of Lord Sandwich, a persis-
tent gambler, who not being willing to
leave the dice table long enough for the
taking of food, invented preparation of
| food that he could take without stopping
the game; namely, slice Of beef between
two slices of bread, which was named
after Lord, Sandwich. 1t is absurd for
those of %us who have never felt
the fascination of the wager to speak
slightingly of the temptation. It has
slain q multitude of intellectual and
moral giants, men and women stronger
than you or 1. Down under its power
went gIorieus Oliver Goldsmith, Gibbon
| the historian, and Charles Fox the states
man,sand in olden times famous senators
of the United States, who used to be as
regularly at the gambling house all night
as they were in the halls of Legislation by
day. Oh, the tragedies of the faro table
know persons who began with slight
J stake in ladies' psrlor. and ended with
| the suicides pistol at Monte Carlo. They
played with the square pieces OF bone
with black marks on them, not knowing
that Satan was playing for their bones at
the same time, and was sure to sweep all
the stakes off on his side of the table.
The last New York Legislature sanctioned
the mighty evil last spring by passing
law for it's defence at the race tracks,
and many young men in these cities lost
all their wages at Coney Island this sum-
mer, and this fell are borrowing from
THE MONEY TILLs
of their employers or arranging by means
of false entry to adjust their demorRlized
| finances. Every man VINE voted for the
Ives pool bill has on his hands and fore
head the blood of these souls.
But in this connection some young
converts say to me: SIS it right to play
cards? Is there any harm in game of
whist or euchre?" Well, know good
men who play whist and euchre and
other styles of game without any wagers.
had friend who played cards with his
wife and children, AMI then at the close
said: "Come, now, let US have prayers"
will not Judge other mems Gonsciences.
out tell you that cards are in my mind
so associated with the temporal and
eternal damnation Of splendid young men
that should no sooner say to my family:
"Come, let US have game of cards."
than 1 would 60 into menagerie and
say: "Come, let US have q game of rattle
snakes" or into a cemetery, and sitting
down by marble slab, say to the grave
diggers: "Come, let US have game of
skulls" Conscientious young ladies are
silently saying to me while speak: "Do
you think card playing will do US any
L
feel if in the great day of eternity, when
we are asked to give an account of our
influence, some man shall say to you: 81
was introduced to games of chance in the
year 1887, in Brooklyn,a at your house, and
l went on from that sport to something
more exciting, and went on down until I
lost my business, and lost my morals, land
| lost my soul, and these chains that you
See on nv wrists and feet are the chains
OF q gsmester's doom, and am on my
way to gamblers hell" Honey at the
start, eternal catastrophe at the last.
Stock gambling comes into the same
catalogue. It must be eXhileraling to go
into Wall street, New York, or State
street, Boston, or Third street, Phlladel-
phls, and depositing a small sum of
money, e
RUN THE RISK ~
of taking out fortune. Many men kfe
doing an honest and safe business in .the
stock market, and you are an lgnoyamus
if you do not know that it is just as
| legitimate to deal in stocks as to deal in
coffee, or sugar, or -four, But nearly all
the outsiders who go there on little
| financial excursion lose all. The old
spiders eat up the unsuspecting flies.
| had friend who put his nand on his hip
pocket, and said to me in substance: "I
have there the value OF hundred and
| fifty thousand dollars" His home is to-
day penniless. What was the matter?
Wall street. OF the vast majority who
are victimized you hear not one word.
One great stock firm goes down, and
whole columns of newspapers dis
cuss their fraud, or their dis
aster, and we are presented with their
features and their biography. But where
one such famous firm sinks, 500 unknown
men sink with them. The great steamer
goes down, and all the little boats are
swallowed in the same engulfmen t. Gam
bling is gambling, whether in stocks or
bread stuffs, or dice or race track betting.
Exnilaration at the start, and q raving
brain, and q shattered, nervous system,
and sacrificed property, and destroyed
soul at the last. Young man, buy no
lottery tickets, purchase no prize pack
ages, bet on no
BASE BALL GAMES
or yacht racing, have no faith in luck,
answer no mysterious circulars proposing
| great income for small investment, shoe
away the buzzsrds that hover around our
hotels trying to entrap strangers. &c
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